Your pals are all about Rainbow Six Siege, but your bag is more story-based and sci-fi. Soon you may be able to have it all, as Ubisoft extends the R6 brand, literally into alien territory.

We’ll be live-covering the event tonight, so if you’re not in the mood to watch everything unfold, check here for fresh trailer dumps, more info on upcoming games and plenty of hype!

We’re neck deep in the totally Not-E3 season, and after weeks of waiting one of the Big Four of gaming is finally ready to lift the lid on everything that it has to show. Ubisoft’s back with a bang, and barring any other leaks for Far Cry 6, there should be a few surprises in store tonight! Ubisoft’s event kicks off at 12pm PT/3pm ET/8pm GMT, which translates to 9PM in African time. Not too shabby.

Operation Steel Wave will see two new Operators make their debut: Conservationist Melusi from South Africa, and the Norwegian influencer with a gun Ace. Here’s a breakdown on their loadouts, stats and backgrounds.

As the second season of Year 5 rapidly approaches for Rainbow Six Siege, Ubisoft lifts the lid on what to expect from ‘Steel Wave’. One major highlight, as far as we’re concerned, is the introduction of South African defender Melusi. She does, however, meet her match in new attacker Ace from Norway. There’s plenty more disruptive (in the best way) content besides, but let’s go with the new faces first …

Five years after release, and Tom Clancy would be proud of the game that Rainbow Six Siege has become. Taking the core concept of the original games and focusing them on smaller areas of active combat, Ubisoft’s approach to the series has been one of constant growth and evolution. Operators are the lifeblood of Rainbow Six Siege, tactical tools in …

There’s a bit of uncertainty in the air right now over the launch of the next generation of gaming hardware and the software that’ll follow in its wake. Sort of like a lost fart in a perfume factory. The fog of war in the gaming industry has resulted in developers and publishers from all spheres of development to adapt or perish in a rapidly changing environment where release dates are constantly shifting and established plans have been thrown out of the window.

Rainbow Six Siege is as good as it’ll ever be thanks to Operation Shifting Tides introducing some much-requested new content, with the complete package being a superb showcase of action, strategy and half a decade’s worth of polish.